Shark Bytes

Great theme, but did they have to ruin it by showing the credits during it?

SWITCH...starring Robert Wagner...Eddie Albert...and...CHARLIE CALLAS???

Sharon Gless was a real babe in that show. I used to have such a huge crush on her. I have hated everything else that she has been in since. Cagney and Lacey was unwatchable and her roles on Burn Notice and Nip/Tuck are beyond hideous. I don't know what happened between Switch and Cagney & Lacey, but Gless was no longer cute.

Switch ran long before Magnum was on the air.

I like this show, it was great fun to watch. I do tend to wonder if Wagner got the role of an ex-con because he was in To Catch a Thief earlier in his career.

I did like the show and yeah the gimmick gets old, but no worse than some of the redundant crap that is popular on TV today.

I'd agree about Switch's opening segment - but when WOR-TV in New York took the basic idea of that animated intro (with zigzag vertical lines moving over scenes from the show) for their 4 O'Clock Movie as used from the late 1970's to the early 1980's, that ruined it. I think it's a testament to the extent of Switch's disappearance from rerun-land that people would note that the inspiration for the zigzag logo open used for Ocean's Thirteen would be attributed to the intro of Ch. 9's movie show than to that for this program (though WOR's movie show had something Switch did not: "The Riviera Affair" by Neil Richardson, a British stock-music piece from about 1970 that has since attained legendary icon status).

This show was a template for later shows like Simon/Simon that used a similar premise but had better writers. It also had Tom Sellecks Magnum PI as a leed in.

This show had a kick-ass opening theme! Once that was over, though, "Switch" was just another formulaic '70s detective show.